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Roodepoort sweeps streets for murder-gangs

Poor shack-dwellers assaulted by gunmen with hammer, Durban Deep, Roodeport - suspects sought 24 May 2011 - Police in Roodepoort are looking for this man, in connection with the armed attack against couple living in a shack on Sunday, 16 April at about 2am in Durban Deep, Roodepoort.(source: Tihan van der Walt) - On this day, three men crashed their way into a shack and found a couple sleeping inside. The man pictured here was armed with a firearm. The three men demanded money and cellphones from the poor couple. After seing they didn’t have any, the men got angry and assaulted the couple with a hammer he found in the shack.The suspect is slender, about 1,70 metres tall, dark in complexion, aged 25 to 26, has rough skin and was also armed with a pistol.The men then took the couples bank cards and withdrew R1,000 from their bank accounts and fled.Anyone with information, please call Detective Constable Jonny Senosi on 078 576 3506.

On 26 Jan 2011, the Roodepoort SAPS teamed up with a large number of local community members and several block watches surrounding Georginia and Roodepoort North to try and sweep the streets clean of the armed-robbery gangs which are targetting families inside their homes.

These house robberies have increased in the area. (source: Tihan van der Walt) The SAPS and block watches met on Mouton Road around 6pm and spread out from there. According to Roodepoort SAPS constable Vincent Mashiteng, they have been informed about an increase in crime in this, and surrounding areas, during or between 6pm and 9pm. "Tonight we will patrol the streets to increase visibility and if we do see crime, we can arrest the suspects," says Mashiteng. The patrolling parties did not come across any house-robbery cases, but they did enter several shebeens and suspicious-looking properties. Police also did random searches on people on the street. The streets of the entire Roodepoort North and Georginia were filled with patrolling cars and criminals stood no chance of operating during this time. The operation lasted until about 8.30pm, after which the patrolling parties met back at the starting point.﻿

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '